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If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?

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Yann Martel
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 25
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I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
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[The taxidermist is] a historian, dealing with an animal's past the zookeeper is a politician, dealing with an animal's present and everyone else is a citizen who must decide on that animal's future (...) The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?
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Just as art brings you to another place, so does religion - and to ask questions of factuality tends to reduce both. If you say you were inspired by a novel, that implies that your book is a work of fiction.
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Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly, unathletic kid that no one wanted on their team.
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I felt I was beating a rainbow to death
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I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.
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The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.
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Nothing beats reason for keeping tigers away. But be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
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Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.
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If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity – it’s envy.
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If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
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Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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